“It’s too late to roll the dice” instead of “it’s too late to apologize” sounds much more meaningful.

Hey now, you’re a rockstar, get the show on, get laid

I always think of Metallica’s Saint Anger:

🎶 Medallion noose, I hang myself

Saint Anger 'round my neck

I feel my world shake

Like an earthquake

Hard to see clear

Is it me? Is it fear?

I’m not even angry with you

I’m not even angry with you

I’m not even angry with you

I’m not even angry with you

🎶

Yet the real lyrics are:

I’m madly in anger with you

I’m madly in anger with you

I’m madly in anger with you

I’m madly in anger with you

… sigh…

Like a dog without a bone, like an actor OUT OF ROLE

For fuck’s sake Jim, actor out on loan, pff! What had he been smoking?

not always. I saw this in a forum meant years ago, I wish I had saved a screenshot or something…

the forum thread was about the dumbest lyrics in songs and someone said sanitarium by metallica had these lyrics:

Got some death to do
Mirror stairs back hard
Kill, it’s such a friendly word

and complained it’s nonsense. why would stairs be made of mirrors, and what did that have anything with the rest… also what does stairs back hard even mean, etc …

as you may have guessed even if you don’t know the song, the lyrics are “mirror stares back hard”, which means the person is talking about their own reflection having a look in their eyes.

not only were the misheard lyrics dumb, but I always admired the sheer confidence of the person who, upon hearing these nonsense lyrics, instead of using their internet access to look it up to confirm, used it to complain how stupid it was without thinking twice about whether they could have misunderstood.

I cannot hear this song without thinking that the background singers are repeatedly saying “cut your balls off” during the refrain

Billy Idol - Mony Mony

Here’s to you Mrs. Robinson; She’s a slutty moron you should know.

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Someone once told me that they thought the line in Uptown Funk was, “I’m too hot, hot ham!” and I’ve been hearing it that way ever since.

I just learned that in Collective Soul’s Shine, he’s not saying “you haven’t let your light shine down”. But it’s actually a Jesus song and 'heaven let your light shine down." Over 30 years I was wrong lol

That’s when it’s time to write a cover.

“Sewing machines of love”

-Tears for Fears

in my mind, the lyrics of no surprises by radiohead will always be

no one laughs and no surprises

rather than

no alarms and no surprises

Probably a tad obscure, but at the end of Set (Extended Mix) there’s a section where they repeat “converge” but I can’t help but hear ‘you’re a virgin’ XD

Then again I don’t like that better than the original lyric per se, it’s just different

And I’ll sing all night and in the mornin’ light

When your shades are on and your head’s on ice

You’ll know you’ve seen the redneck sodomy